Symphony No. 2 (Scriabin)

Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 2, Op. 29, in C minor was written in 1901 and first performed in St Petersburg under Anatol Lyadov on 12 January 1902. It is the most structurally conventional of all Scriabin's symphonies.^[1]

The symphony consists of five movements:

• I. Andante
• II. Allegro
• III. Andante
• IV. Tempestoso
• V. Maestoso

When Vassily Safonoff, known to Americans as conductor of the New York Philharmonic from 1903 to 1919, conducted Scriabin's Second Symphony for the first time, he waved the score at the orchestra and said, "Here is the new Bible, gentlemen..."^[2]

References

1. ^ Bernard Jacobson, 1991, Scriabin, Symphonies 1, 2 and 3, etc., UPC 724356772021.
2. ^ Aspen no. 2, item 2: Scriabin Again and Again